Then clearly there is something seriously wrong with the Default GNU/Linux download. It does not contain a file called 'pharo-ui'.
Moreover, since the Pharo6.1.image file is located in the 'shared' folder, you'd have to CD to 'shared' to execute your command. No mention of this anywhere! How is a newbie to know??? Also, there is absolutely no indication that: (a) you need to download a VM; and (b) where you can obtain this VM from. All in all, this Linux support is quite messed up. It would be safer to remove it completely from pharo.org, rather than confusing the hell out of a visitor to pharo.org. Stephane Ducasse-3 wrote > On Tue, Dec 5, 2017 at 5:49 AM, horrido < > horrido.hobbies@ > > wrote: >> Understood. I'm working on a Pharo Quick Start guide. If it passes muster >> with you guys, you may want to link to it, or incorporate its contents >> into >> the pharo.org website. > > Sure let us know. > > >> However, I've stumbled on an odd obstacle: downloading and running the >> Default GNU/Linux zip file. According to the Linux installation page, and >> I >> quote: >> >> Version 6.1 for several common GNU/Linux configurations. The zip files >> contain everything necessary. Just download and run the executable. For >> more >> download options, see the sections below. > > ./pharo-ui Pharo61.image & >> >> I am unable to "run the executable" without further explanation. I'm >> guessing that it's missing the Pharo VM, which apparently isn't included >> in >> the download. > > Why would it be? > > >> >> A newbie looking at this installation page and trying to get started with >> Pharo under Linux would be totally confused and frustrated. Hell, *I'm >> totally confused and frustrated!* > > As you see this can be fixed without losing more time on that. > > >> >> >> >> Stephane Ducasse-3 wrote >>> Hi >>> >>> We have a full mooc with 90 videos, we have books. And we are super >>> busy. >>> You see we cannot do everything. >>> >>> >>> Stef >>> >>> On Mon, Dec 4, 2017 at 5:15 AM, horrido < >> >>> horrido.hobbies@ >> >>> > wrote: >>>> Speaking of which, one of my readers said he tried out Pharo recently >>>> and >>>> found the documentation wanting. He was expecting a Getting Started >>>> guide >>>> at >>>> the pharo.org website and couldn't find one. So he had to blunder >>>> around >>>> a >>>> bit. >>>> >>>> I told him he could've looked at "Chapter 2: A quick tour of Pharo" in >>>> the >>>> *Pharo by Example 5* book, but he's right. There ought to be something >>>> obvious at the pharo.org website that helps a newbie get Pharo up and >>>> running, understand how to basically use the Pharo IDE, and write the >>>> standard "Hello World" program. >>>> >>>> I checked out squeak.org and found the same documentation issue! Why is >>>> this??? >>>> >>>> >>>> Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas-2 wrote >>>>> Documentation is going well. In fact the stuff that kept me away of >>>>> Squeak, despite of its potential was the lack of documentation. "The >>>>> artifact is the curriculum" was to powerful but too heavy. You need a >>>>> way to understand how to deconstruct and navigate the artifact that is >>>>> usually anchored with the culture you have (books and reading) instead >>>>> of only launching inspectors os browsing the code. Grafoscopio is my >>>>> attempt to fill that gap between the world of objects/simulations and >>>>> the world of scripts/documents. >>>>> >>>>> Cheers, >>>>> >>>>> Offray >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Sent from: http://forum.world.st/Pharo-Smalltalk-Users-f1310670.html >>>> >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Sent from: http://forum.world.st/Pharo-Smalltalk-Users-f1310670.html >> -- Sent from: http://forum.world.st/Pharo-Smalltalk-Users-f1310670.html
